The Duhks

Pastiche with a punch

by James M. Manheim

posted 5/1/2005

People often compliment the Duhks on their bass player — even though the band rarely uses a bass. Most of the bass sounds you hear in their music come from the Cuban cajón, a box drum that anchors the Latin percussion rhythms of their songs. And you might ask what Latin percussion is doing in the folk music of a band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, the

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